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...Arabic through a megaphone from the street outside. "People in the house," the Israeli said, "get out. We don't want you to be hurt." The officer waited: "People, get out. People in the house, we are going to come in." Palestinians say Israelis frequently used camp residents to knock on doors to persuade people to come out into the street. Israeli army sources confirmed to TIME that they used this practice, which Human Rights Watch condemned in its report as a violation of international humanitarian...
...thing to host a TV special filled with outtakes from your old CBS comedy series and knock 'em dead in the ratings. It's quite another to try a new career as a playwright. But that's what Carol Burnett has done. She and daughter Carrie Hamilton (who died of lung cancer in January) collaborated on Hollywood Arms, a play based on Burnett's memoir, One More Time. Hamilton worked nearly till the end; she was viewing actors' audition tapes until just weeks before her death. But Mom had to finish alone. The play opened in Chicago last week...
...taking over a position that had been manned by the great David Forst ’98, Mager played an integral role on a Harvard baseball team that won its third straight Ivy League title and fourth straight Red Rolfe Division crown. As he watched fellow freshman Faiz Shakir knock in the run that clinched a spot in the NCAAs, he had no reason to believe that the triumphs would ever stop coming, that Harvard couldn’t dominate another three seasons and, for all he knew, forever...
Suddenly there was a knock on Jimmy Carter's suite at his hotel in Caracas, Venezuela, interrupting his scheduled interview with Flora Lewis of the New York Times. It was a member of Fidel Castro's entourage telling Carter's advisor, Robert Pastor, that the Cuban dictator was even then walking down from his suite three floors up en route to meet the former U.S. President. For months Carter had been trying to arrange a secret meeting with Castro: they eventually decided that the occasion of Carlos Andres Perez's inauguration as President of Venezuela in late February 1989 would...
...garbage,” said a smiling Shakir, who barely made contact with the Stern curveball. But the knock and its link to the past suggests that Faiz may have one last ugly game-winner left...